Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.
The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She's just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man. ' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
Every language has its own music.